# scanner
## English
### Etymology

From scan +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈskænɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈskænə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)

### Noun

scanner (plural scanners)
* One who scans. [from 16th c.]
** 1997, Douglas Robillard, Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint, page 17:It is, perhaps, too much to assume that an elderly Melville read James, but he was an eager scanner of magazines and did read fiction in his later years.
* A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium. [from 20th c.]
    He put the picture in the scanner, then e-mailed a copy of it to his family.
* A device which scans barcodes or QR codes for the purpose of charging a customer, performing a price check or enquiry, printing a price label or sticker, checking an item in or out of the store or warehouse, or finding an item ordered through click and collect and its corresponding location; a pricing gun or HHT.
* A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
* A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
** 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:Chorban: I'm using a small scanner to gather readings on the keepers. Chorban: So far, I've had mixed results. I find it difficult to get near the creatures.
* A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).

#### Derived terms

* 3D scanner
* baggage scanner
* barcode scanner
* brain scanner
* CAT scanner
* chromatoscanner
* full body scanner
* galvoscanner
* intrascanner
* medscanner
* microscanner
* millimeter wave scanner
* photoscanner
* piezoscanner
* police scanner
* portscanner
* radiochromatoscanner
* scanography
* slide scanner
* telescanner
* X-ray scanner

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: սկաներ (skaner)
* → Catalan: escàner
* → Czech: skener
* → Dutch: scanner
* → Greek: σκάνερ (skáner)
* → Finnish: skanneri
* → French: scanneur
* → German: Scanner
* → Hungarian: szkenner
* → Japanese: スキャナー (sukyanā), スキャナ (sukyana)
* → Korean: 스캐너 (seukaeneo)
* → Portuguese: escâner, scâner (Portugal), scanner, scaner (uncommon), scanner
* → Russian: ска́нер (skáner)
* → Serbo-Croatian: skener / скенер
* → Spanish: escáner, scanner

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* canners

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English scanner.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈskɛ.nər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: scan‧ner

### Noun

scanner m (plural scanners, diminutive scannertje n)
* scanner (scanning device)

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English scan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ska.ne/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

scanner
* to scan (to create a digital copy of an image using a scanner)

#### Related terms

* scanneur
* scantrad

### Further reading

* “scanner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Norman
### Etymology

Borrowed from English scan +‎ -er.

### Verb

scanner (gerund scann'nie)
* (Jersey, computing, etc.) to scan

#### Derived terms

* scanneu (“scanner”)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English scanner.

### Noun

scanner m (plural scanners)
* Alternative form of escâner
* Alternative form of scâner

## Spanish
### Noun

scanner m (plural scanners or scanner)
* Alternative spelling of escáner

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* skanner

### Noun

scanner c
* a scanner (e.g. a document scanner or barcode reader)
    Synonym: bildläsare

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | scanner | scanners |
| singular | definite | scannern | scannerns |
| plural | indefinite | scannrar | scannrars |
| plural | definite | scannrarna | scannrarnas |

#### Related terms

* scanna (“to scan”)
* scanning

### References

* scanner in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* scanner in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)